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I must get Sir George Farquhar's opinion at once." The organist grunted. The wound inflicted on his susceptibility had rankled deeply, and indignation had been tenderly nursed. A piece of his mind was to have been given to Westray, and he regretted the very reasonableness of the explanation that robbed him of his opportunity. "Pray don't apologise," he said; "I never noticed that you had gone.
Mr Bradshaw respected the very self-restraint he thought he saw in Mr Farquhar's demeanour, attributing it to a wise desire to wait until trade should be rather more slack, and the man of business more at leisure to become the lover. As for Jemima, at times she thought she almost hated Mr Farquhar. "What business has he," she would think, "to lecture me?
When Judge Rutherford piloted him up the broad, unpaved avenue towards the small house near Dupont Circle, the first objects which caught Farquhar's gaze were two young people standing among the unkempt rose and syringa bushes in the little front garden. The slim grace and bloom of their youth would have caught any eye.
They drove on for some distance through a straggling village, with its ivied church guarded by sentinel cypresses, children were playing about with hands full of cowslips, and lilac bushes blossomed within cottage palings. A little beyond they turned into Sir Thomas Farquhar's park, where young rooks were cawing, unwitting of their predestined pastried tomb. On entering a long, shady avenue, Mrs.
He was glad to see the turn the conversation had taken, and hoped that a deus ex machina had appeared. Lord Blandamer's next question was still more encouraging. "At what do you estimate the cost of the transept repairs?" Westray ran through his papers till he found a printed leaflet with a view of Cullerne Minster on the outside. "Here are Sir George Farquhar's figures," he said.
"The whole thing is so suitable the advantages arising from the connexion are so obvious; besides which, I am quite aware, from many little speeches of Mr Farquhar's, that he contemplates marriage at no very distant time; and he seldom leaves Eccleston, and visits few families besides our own certainly, none that can compare with ours in the advantages you have all received in moral and religious training."
Leucole, the chief of the village, with whom arrangements for Farquhar's protection and comfort were made, was a little old man of mild eye and very pleasing face, and on being informed that it was intended to leave the Musungu entirely under his charge, suggested that some man should be left to wait on him, and interpret his wishes to his people.
"You will be a man yet," said Farquhar, shaking Ranald's hand. "You have got the patience and the endurance." These were great virtues in Farquhar's opinion. "Not much patience, I am afraid," said Ranald. "But I am glad you trusted me with your team." "And any day you want them you can have them," said Farquhar, his reckless mood leading him to forget Kirsty for the moment.
John, to my inexpressible regret, left us for London; however, we had enjoyed several conferences together during his stay, and when we parted it was with a pressing invitation on his side to visit him in London, and a most faithful promise on mine to avail myself of the request. No sooner was he fairly gone than I went to seek my uncle; I found him reading one of Farquhar's comedies.
It is especially found in public school and university slang. This is a very early example. p. 250 Teaster. i.e. a tester sixpence, cf. Farquhar's Love and a Bottle, , i, I, where Brush says: 'Who throws away a Tester and a mistress loses sixpence. p. 251 to top upon him. To cheat him; to trick him; especially to cheat with dice. cf.
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